Journey of the Fate Destroying Emperor novel Chapter 1262

Chapter 1262 The Academies

"Did Emperor Kong say anything about the celebration?" Wang Wei asked.

"Anything specific?" Xu Shi asked.

"Anything about how weird this event is."

"Hmm, the master did start acting weird after arriving in this place," Lin Fan added.

"As soon as he arrived, he told us he wanted to check something and left. He didn't tell us anything else," Xu Shi nodded.

'So, Kong is not part of this event,' Wang Wei thought. However, with the latter's friendship with Xun Junyao, he might be able to get more information.

"Do you want to see our master?" Xu Shi asked.

"That would be best," Wang Wei nodded.

"We will pass your request to him," Xu Shi said. The three then chatted about many other things, mainly their experience since ascending. The food was delicious, but Wang Wei was disappointed after imagining the food his future wife talked about. Once everything finished, they separated.

Wang Wei returned to his inn and started protecting his Time Mark. He realized it was hard to improvise substantially in such a short period, so he thought of another method inspired by his meeting with Old Man Tianji.

He used the Time Mark of a bunch of mortals and people weaker than him to hide his mark. He summoned a projection of the River of Fate to control the mortals. As for the cultivators and people weaker than him, Wang Wei mainly used the people from his Fate Changing Hall. With this method, a Paragon would have to skim through trillions of other people's Time Marks before having a chance at finding his.

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Emperor Enlightening Academy's Resting Post:

Xu Shi and Lin Fan returned home. After today's meeting, they had a lot on their minds, so they remained quiet for more than an hour after returning home.

"Do you think we should tell the master what we've learned?" Lin Fan asked.

"It's probably best if we do so. We won't be able to hide it for long anyway."

"True."

They waited for a few hours until Emperor Kong returned home. He was apparently distracted, his mind still occupied by whatever meeting he had just attended. However, as soon as Kong saw his disciples, he could tell they wanted to speak to him.

"Did something happen?"

"Well, yes," Xu Shi said. She took a moment and explained everything that occurred with the meeting with Wang Wei.

"The Grand Sect Alliance again — it seems they are destined to be our enemy," Emperor Kong sighed. The most prominent Academy of the Eternal Ascension World is the Benevolent Oath Academy, and they are the top member of the alliance, taking a spot amongst the Five Primal Paragons.

However, that academy suffered tremendously in this era as the parasites eradicated or shut down all their branches because they did not want them to continue training more cultivators and because the academy had such an enormous influence due to how many cultivators owed them karmic debt.

Then, Emperor Kong came along and convinced the parasites to re-open the academies to serve them under his leadership. Since then, the Benevolent Oath Academy has sent people to secretly contact him, both in an attempt to recruit and intimidate him.

After experiencing a few plots and schemes, Emperor Kong has long predicted that the alliance might be the destined enemy in his rise to the top of the Eternal Ascension World.

"The Yin Moon Palace," Emperor Kong muttered. "I never thought they would become such an important piece." He still could not understand how this book involved the Transcendent Path. Then, he remembered something:

'The Heart Desire Palace?' Kong had collected the ruins and records of many top lineages to make up for his Academy's foundation, so he knew many secrets.

'It would explain why so many factions feared them,' Emperor Kong thought. 'Everything makes sense if these two factions had Half-Step Transcendence cultivators before the Ultimate Taboo.' Now that he had figured out the ins and outs, Emperor Kong thought about how to use this information. Sadly, as of now, their academy is too weak to get involved in anything associated with transcendence.

"Master, what should we do now?" Lin Fan asked.

"We must take this opportunity that the Grand Sect Alliance's Paragons and Primals are dead to secretly weaken them as much as possible," Emperor Kong stated. "We can probably work with Wang Wei," Xu Shi shared. "With his personality, he won't accept the Dao Opening Sect not being the best. In fact, he's probably already planning on how to weaken the Grand Sect Alliance."